MUGEN MOTORSPORTS, HONDA'S FIRST TUNER

HISTORY

Mugen Motorsports is a Japanese company that prepares Honda products for competition. It was founded in 1973 by Hirotoshi Honda, son of Honda’s founder, Soichiro Honda.

Mugen means "without limits". That’s why, right from the start, the company has made parts for everything from pro motorsport to amateur tuning, while also helping Honda develop sporty models like the Si, SiR (VTi in Europe) and Type R.

FORMULA 1

The company builds engines for Formula 1, Formula Nippon and Japan’s Super GT.

In 1991 Mugen built V10 engines for Tyrrell, a British team, and over the following years it worked with several teams until it scored its first F1 win at the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix, with a Ligier driven by Olivier Panis.

The team won two more races in 1999 with Heinz-Harald Frentzen, but the year ended with the news that Honda was coming back to Formula 1, building its own engines for British American Racing. So for the 2002 season, Mugen handed its Jordan Grand Prix contract over to Honda and pulled out of F1.

FAMOUS CARS PREPARED BY MUGEN

Mugen has built countless cars, but these are the most common and best known:

1984 Honda CRX Mugen:

1987 Wonder Civic Mugen:

NSX Mugen RR:

Honda Civic Mugen RR:

MUGEN TODAY

Today Mugen is based in Saitama Prefecture, where it keeps improving Honda cars and motorcycles. Like Spoon Sports, Mugen sells its demo cars and is open to enthusiasts who want their cars repaired or modified.